Powidz (Polanów)

Powidz
	Powidz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Polanów
Geographic location :	54 ° 11 '  N , 16 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 11 '3 "  N , 16 ° 29' 8"  E
Residents :	110
Postal code :	76-010
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sowno - Sowinko
Rail route :	Skibno railway station , Szczecin - Gdańsk railway line
Next international airport :	Gdansk Stettin-Goleniów

Powidz (German Friedensdorf) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship in the municipality of Polanów (Pollnow) in the Powiat Koszaliński (Köslin) .

Geographical location

Powidz is located in the north-eastern part of the Koszalin district, 27 kilometers from the district center and 20 kilometers from Polanów. The village is located off the side road Sianów  (Zanow)  -  Ratajki  (Ratteick)  - Polanów and can be reached via the Sowno (Alt Zowen) junction . Until 1945, Kösternitz (now in Polish: Kościernica), five kilometers away, was a train station on the Köslin  - Natzlaff (- Pollnow) small railway line of the Köslin –  Belgarder Bahnen .

Powidz is surrounded by the neighboring towns of Kościernica in the west, Ratajki and Sierwakowo Sławieńskie (Zirchow) in the north, Sowno in the east and Sowinko (Neu Zowen) in the south. The landscape around the village is undulating and rises to the south. There is also the highest point of the place with 119 meters.

Place name

The German name Friedensdorf is said to have been chosen because one imagined a settlement of peaceful people who help each other. The remote location of the place also speaks for peaceful calm in the village, when in Schlawer Land you literally said: “It's as quiet as in the Friedensdorfer Church” - even though there was no church in Friedensdorf.

history

Friedensdorf was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century as a settlement from Alt Zowen (now Polish: Sowno). The construction years 1803 and 1810 were still recognizable on some house gables before 1945. The settlers should come from villages in the district of Schlawe ( Damerow (now Polish: Dąbrowa), Karnkewitz (Karnieszewice), Zitzmin (Sieciemin), Nemitz (Niemica) and Sydow (Żydowo)) and the district of Köslin ( Crampe (Krępa), Dubbertech (Dobrociechy ), Gust (Gozd) and Kurow (Kurowo)).

In 1818 there were 308 inhabitants in the 300 hectare community of Friedensdorf, although their number had fallen to 199 by 1939.

A major fire in 1892 destroyed 15 farms in the eastern part of the village. The arsonist was caught and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The reconstruction took place relatively quickly.

Friedendorf belonged to 1945 with Alt Zowen (Sowno) and Kritten (Krytno), Latzig (Laski) and Neu Zowen to the official and civil registry district Zowen with seat in Alt Zowen. The office belonged to the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

On March 3, 1945 troops of the Red Army marched into Friedensdorf - with cruel circumstances, mistreatment and destruction. In early 1946 the Polish administration took over the village and the German population was expelled from June 1946 . As Powidz, Friedensdorf became part of Gmina Polanów and moved from the Schlawe district to the Powiat Koszaliński of the Köslin Voivodeship , from 1998 the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

church

Before 1945 mainly Protestant residents lived in Friedensdorf . The church stood in Alt Zowen (now Polish: Sowno), and the villages of Alt Zowen with Kritten (Krytno) and Neu Zowen (Sowinko) formed the independent parish of Zowen with Friedensdorf, which in 1940 had 1006 members. It was a branch parish in the parish Kösternitz (Kościernica) in the church district Köslin (Koszalin) in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm Schubring.

Today the inhabitants of Powidz belong mostly to the Catholic Church in Poland . Today the place of worship is Kościernica (Kösternitz) , which is now a branch of the Parafia Szczeglino (Steglin) in the dean's office Polanów (Pollnow) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg . The Protestant church members are looked after by the Koszalin (Köslin) parish in the Pomerania-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The first Friedensdorfer school burned down in 1902. In 1904 a new building could be erected.

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1989